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Author: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana at ekaia.org>
Date:   Sun Mar 24 14:54:00 2013 +0100

    add repost from rhonda's post about backports

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+Title: Backports integrated into the main archive
+Date: 2013-03-18 15:00
+Tags: announce, backports
+Slug: backports-integrated-into-the-main-archive
+Author: Ana Guerrero
+
+**This is a repost from [Gerfried Fuchs's post](http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/2013/03/18#backports-integrated-into-the-main-archive)**
+
+Dear users and supporters of the backports service!
+
+The Backports Team is pleased to announce the next important step on getting
+backports more integrated. People who are reading [debian-infrastructure-
+announce](http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/) will have
+seen that there was an archive maintenance last weekend: starting with wheezy-
+backports the packages will be accessible from the regular pool instead of a
+separate one, and all backports uploads will be processed through the regular
+upload queue (including those for squeeze-backports and squeeze-backports-
+sloppy).
+
+## For Users
+
+What exactly does that mean for you? For users of wheezy, the sources.list
+entry will be different, a simple substitute of squeeze for wheezy won't work.
+The new format is:
+
+> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
+
+So it is debian instead of debian-backports, and offered through the regular
+mirror network. Feel invited to check your regular mirror if it carries
+backports and pull from there.
+
+## For Contributers
+
+What does it mean for contributing developers? Uploads for backports are no
+longer to be pushed to backports-master but to ftp.upload.debian.org, like any
+other regular package. Also, given that the packages are served from the same
+archive install there is no need to include the original tarball in the upload
+any longer because the archive knows it (Squeeze and beyond).
+
+Also, given that the upload goes to the same upload queue, there is only one
+keyring used anymore, so no more pain with expired or replaced keys. We though
+still keep the rule of adding your UID to an ACL list (this also includes DM
+additions). This is mostly only to give us the chance to remind you that
+uploads to backports are directly available for installation onto stable
+systems and you thus should take special care there. We carefully tried to
+take over the old ACLs, in case you can't upload anymore, please [tell
+us](mailto:team at backports.debian.org) so we can look into the issue.
+
+I've mentioned wheezy-backports (and squeeze-backports-sloppy) a few times
+here already, and you might wonder when it will be available. Technically, it
+is available from now on. Practically, while you could already upload to it,
+the set up of the buildd network is more painful than expected, so please
+allow the Buildd Team some days for setting them up.
+
+The upload rules for wheezy-backports are the same: packages that are in the
+next suite are accepted. Given that Jessie isn't created yet, we want you to
+think about whether the package you want to upload will go into Jessie final,
+and that you are taking a closer look once Jessie is created and the package
+entered there about the upgradeability. For the time until the suite is
+available, you can see this as relaxed upload rule.
+
+The same goes for squeeze-backports-sloppy: packages from two suites after
+Squeeze are acceptable, which turns it into the same relaxed rule as wheezy-
+backports above. Please also keep in mind that uploads to squeeze-backports-
+sloppy usually should be accompanied by uploads to wheezy-backports so people
+are able to upgrade from squeeze-backports-sloppy to wheezy with wheezy-
+backports.
+
+## Thanks
+
+Finally, we want to thank the FTP-Master Team for their fine work on making
+this happen.
+
+The documentation on [backports-master](http://backports-master.debian.org/)
+has been updated, and in case of any doubt or question, feel free to ask them
+on either the [debian-backports mailinglist](http://lists.debian.org/debian-
+backports/), or in case of sensitive topics [ask
+us](mailto:team at backports.debian.org) directly.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+Rhonda for the Backports Team
+

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